The number would amount to $23,000 per year for every family in Israel.

American senators passed a bill titled the “United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018,” paving the way for its likely approval by the US House of Representatives within the week.

The funding involves an additional $550 million aid for Israeli missile systems and $1 billion for US weapons stockpiles in Israel.

US military aid to Israel has skyrocketed over the past several years while the regime’s forces are engaged in blatant human rights violations against Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere.

Hailed as a “great friend to the Jewish people” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump has boosted ties with Israel.

Since the outbreak of the protests on March 30, over 157 Palestinians were killed and some 15,000 others injured.

Trump finally broke with decades of US policy by announcing that the embassy in Israel would be relocated from Tel Aviv to the holy city of Jerusalem al-Quds. He made the move despite foreign leaders’ warnings that it could stoke further tensions in the region.